GO VOTE
Today is the Voting. If you haven't done the Early Voting, go do the Today Voting. Even if you are NPA there are other candidates you can vote on. Go do the voting.
Today is the Voting. If you haven't done the Early Voting, go do the Today Voting. Even if you are NPA there are other candidates you can vote on. Go do the voting.
I spent a couple minutes this morning testing out OnShape. For context, I started using SolidWorks sometime around 2005 actively using it in a manufacturing environment, and have used it in various capacities from contract work to hobby tinkering since then. So far, I've only used it for about an hour to model up one of the CSWA (Certified SolidWorks Associate) practice problems.
My impression: very positive. It took me a little effort to adjust my workflow and get used to the way OnShape does things versus SolidWorks, but I found most of it to be extremely intuitive. There were a couple times that sketch entities automatically inferred some weird relations. One was a couple circles with tangent relations to lines that were a little too far away to be related (in my opinion), but it's fairly serious because it resulted in a "fully-defined" sketch that was incorrect to the dimensions on the print. The other issue I ran into was that the "hole wizard" doesn't maintain the drill diameter when you switch between drill/countersink/counterbore features. That one resulted in me thinking I had placed a 7mm hole which had defaulted back to a 10mm hole. The only reason I caught it was because the counterbore was visually wrong.
I didn't run into many missing features, but one is something I use all the time in SolidWorks - the ability to Trim a sketch item and leave a construction line instead of deleting the trim entirely. I use this a lot for maintaining construction geometry to trimmed entities, and have it turned on by default in SolidWorks.
The last thing was that the part I modeled had a different volume to what the SolidWorks CSWA sheet said it should have if modeled correctly - 425024.24 mm³ in OnShape vs 431376 mm³ on the answer key. It's entirely possible that I modeled it incorrectly, and I haven't gone back and modeled it in SolidWorks (since it's about a 45 minute model) to see if it shows up correctly or highlights a mistake on my end.
I still have a lot of work to do in OnShape before I ditch my SolidWorks Maker subscription, but if people are interested I would be happy to report back when I start doing Assemblies and such.
Also, if anyone could tell me how "public" the public models are in the Free version, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
The new modmail interface is terrible, and is obviously incomplete. There are very basic UI/UX problems that have not been caught or fixed. For example: when you change the sort for your communities in the sidebar, and then check or uncheck one of the boxes, it resets the sort to Name, Ascending (even though it doesn't change the selected sort dropdown - it stays at whatever you selected). When you use the "select all" checkbox on your modmail and archive a page of modmail, the checkbox stays selected and then does the opposite of what it should do - unchecking it selects all, checking it selects none. The layout on mobile is terrible, things overlap all over the place and make it difficult to work. These are basic, elementary UI/UX issues that should have been caught before it was ever published, but here we are months later with an obviously unfinished interface. Thanks a lot, reddit.
In my early 40s. Wife, 2 kids, dog, house, career, hobbies, the whole works. I had a birthday recently and realized that I barely remember the last time that a birthday felt like something other than any other normal day. A card in the mail from my mom, a couple messages from friends who remember, and that's about it. Is this how it is now?
I have seen mentions that there is a Temporary Organization within the government that is tasked with redesigning the government's websites. Although it's not related to the DOGE Department of Government Efficiency, there are supposedly a lot of people on the NDS project that were on DOGE. People seem to be concerned that there are security and privacy implications to the work they are doing.
Reference: https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3mq7rkyj5rk2u
Looking for a properly done 4-wheel alignment in the area, performed with a properly calibrated machine operated by a trained technician that both knows and cares what they're doing. Tall order, but I'm optimistic.
If it's not in the glove box, it's available online. It has every bit of information you would want to know about your car - what the lights on the dash mean, what features your car has and how to use them, what you need to maintain and how often, and more.
I'm in a few mechanic subs and it's astounding to me how many people come in and ask basic questions about their car, or make a post about how they need thousands of dollars in repairs because they "didn't know" that there were things on the car that had to be maintained or replaced at specific intervals.
Yes, the manual is hundreds of pages. You don't need to read and memorize all of it. Skim it and read the important parts. But for the sake of your wallet and the mechanics that have to un-fuck your car... Please read it.
Is there any way that we can start expiring apps that are not used or not published in a certain amount of time, in order to free up app names from people who had great ideas and no follow-through? I have an app I'm trying to build and I can't even get past the first screen because all the names are taken, but none of them are in the public list of apps or seem to belong to an active app.
This subreddit is a community of and for those with Color Vision Deficiency - CVD or "colorblindness". I understand that it seems like a fantastic place to come and solicit feedback on your designs or, worse, ask "How Do I Design This For The Colorblind", or even worse still, advertise the thing that you made that is going to "revolutionize" the lives of people with CVD.
Understand before you post that you and about ten thousand other people have had the exact same thought.
This subreddit is not your place to find test subjects, free design advice, market research, beta testers, or anything else. The posts looking for such, sometimes dozens per week, are presumptuous, disrespectful, and intrusive on the community.
These posts will no longer be allowed in this subreddit. Breaking this rule will result in an immediate ban with no opportunity to appeal, and if we're feeling particularly spicy, we'll add your app, game, or product name to the list of banned words in the subreddit that will get automatically filtered.
Members of the subreddit are welcome to discuss this rule below, but as it stands this is the new rule.